What is azure-sdk-for-net copilot-instructions.md?

Repository instructions for the Azure SDK for .NET, a collection of developer libraries for connecting .NET applications to Azure services. They explain the project layout, prerequisites, and code-generation tools.

Use them to navigate the SDK and generator folders, prepare the development environment, and follow the required steps before using development tools.

They give a coding agent the project-specific context and required setup checks, reducing mistakes when changing or generating Azure SDK code.

How Azure/azure-sdk-for-net configures GitHub Copilot

About the project

Azure SDK for .NET is a repository containing the actively developed C# libraries that applications use to work with Azure services. It is for .NET developers building software that connects to Azure storage, management, and other cloud services.

Azure/azure-sdk-for-net · 6,074 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-sdk-for-net. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 738 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 738 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00738	$0.00738
Opus 5.5	$0.00295	$0.00295
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00148	$0.00148
Haiku 4.5	$0.00074	$0.00074

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 639d19a4ad11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-sdk-for-net copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Overview

Note: For general AI agent guidelines and repository overview, see AGENTS.md at the repository root.

This repo contains Azure SDKs for various Azure services and tools that generate them.

Prerequisites

To use MCP tool calls, PowerShell must be installed. Provide PowerShell installation instructions if not installed, and recommend restarting the IDE to use the MCP server.
When using Copilot from Visual Studio or VS Code (not applicable when using Coding Agent on Github.com):
- Always run the azsdk_verify_setup tool first to validate the user's development environment for SDK MCP tools.
- Do not proceed with any other tool execution until this step is complete.
- Skip this check only for queries that do not require tool execution.

Folder Structure

/eng/packages/http-client-csharp: Contains the source code of the generator for Azure Data Plane SDKs (aka Azure Generator).
/eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt: Contains the source code of the generator for Azure Management Plane SDKs (aka Azure Management Generator).
/sdk: Contains the individual SDKs for Azure services.

Azure Generator

Always run npm install in the /eng/packages/http-client-csharp directory before running the generator.
Always run /eng/packages/http-client-csharp/eng/scripts/Generate.ps1 to regenerate the test projects to validate the result of generator code changes.
For emitter changes, always run npm run lint and npm run prettier in the /eng/packages/http-client-csharp directory to ensure the changes won't break CI.

Azure Management Generator

Always run npm install in the /eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt directory before running the generator.
Always run /eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt/eng/scripts/Generate.ps1 to regenerate the test projects to validate the result of generator code changes.
For emitter changes, always run npm run lint and npm run prettier in the /eng/packages/http-client-csharp-mgmt directory to ensure the changes won't break CI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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azure-sdk-for-net copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-sdk-for-net (6,074 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 738 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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